Rubberstud of the Week #261

Chris always wears his latex proudly :)

Manchester Rubbermen Do Manfest

Hot ad!

Real Red

I think I've posted this one before...hot enough for an encore.

Workout Eyecandy

Red

Stretched and Wet

F*ck Yeah

Balls

Love This Regulation London Ad

Torso and Legs.

Jeebus! Look at the size of this dancer's quads! Thick and stretchy!

This guy just exudes muscular perfection to me. Yum!

Friday Buttpacks

Friday Bulgepacks

Intriguing

Sin City Takes Over the Waldorf

Nice! I'm SO going!

Rubbout Images

I always get a kick out of hearing stories and seeing pics from Rubbout weekend. It makes the event more real to me when I hear stories of guys hooking up or creating interesting bondage scenes in the host hotel. I always miss out on so much! Here are a few pics from Bill from the crew in the Inn on False Creek.

Pics from the weekend have been posted at the Vancouver Men in Leather Flickr page. Check them out via meninleather.ca or rubbout.com!

Friday Night pics
Saturday Afternoon pics
Sunday brunch pics

From the Lifestyle Section

If you're looking for some points to use in a 30-second commercial to promote latex fetishism or lifestyle, there are a few good soundbites here. When someone comes up and asks a question like, "why?", I usually go into how latex barrages the five senses, how it oozes sexuality (among other things), the compression and restraint, and the empowerment I get and ability to become someone else I feel when I put it on.

Latex fetish
Doctissimo – Tue, Apr 16, 2013 00:00 BST

From condoms, sex toys, gloves and clothing, latex is the material that screams 'sex' above all others. The classic image is the full-body catsuit – shiny, black and skin-tight, with openings only over the eyes, nose, and mouth. But classic's not the only way to go, today people are getting creative and even making latex costumes based on manga characters. According to our expert Octavia Delvaux “The costumes evolve with the rubberists' imagination.”

Latex and fetishism

Latex is often associated with fetishism. “It's the ideas of exhibition and sensations (touch, hearing and smell), that take precedence. Latex beautifies the body, highlighting its shapes and curves,” says Delvaux. We've seen it in today's music scene – think Rihanna, Britney and Gaga, who've all seemed to master the erotic codes. “It's fetishist because the desire is directed towards the garment rather than just the body of the sexual partner who wears it,” explains our expert.

Latex and S&M

When most people think of S&M, images of a black latex-clad dominatrix with a rubber whip are often the first to come to mind. “When the mistress wears latex, it's her way of becoming a character. A 'second skin' bodysuit gives the dominatrix a certain confidence and definitely ups her sex appeal, all for the greater satisfaction of her submissive fetishist,” says Delvaux.

Latex fetishism relies on the idea of compression, moulding, squeezing and enclosing.There are also full-coverage bodysuits with doll-faced masks, which completely erase the identity of the subject and relegates them completely to the status of “object”.

It should be noted that fetishism and S&M don't necessarily go hand in hand. While S&M plays with notions of submission and dominance, fetishists often are more drawn to aspects of exhibitionism.

The erotic virtues of latex

Many aspects of the material create its strong erotic allure: the sight of the body compressed or moulded by the latex, highlighting certain parts or curves; the smell and feel of the rubber; even the sound of two latex-clad bodies coming together can drive fetishists to buy latex sheets.

According to those who wear latex, it's the feeling that prevails. The latex way of life varies from one individual to another: some appreciate the smell, the smooth texture, the warmth it provides, while others are drawn to the idea of being “imprisoned” in their clothing, and prefer full bodysuits. “Even the feeling of being menaced by their garment is alluring for some,” adds Delvaux. Sweating (since latex is definitely not breathable material) can equally add an exciting element to the punitive experience.

Catherine Maillard

Rubberstud of the Week #260

Another Rubberf*ck

Can anyone tell me what movie this is from? Is it from one of the RubClub videos? Which one?

Nice Bondage

Into the abyss

The diving suit that turns men into fish
BY JEROME TAYLOR The Independent SATURDAY 20 NOVEMBER 2010

Humans have proven themselves remarkably adept at learning to do what other animals can do naturally. We have taught ourselves to fly like birds, climb like monkeys and burrow like moles. But the one animal that has always proven beyond our reach is the fish.

The invention of scuba diving has allowed us to breathe underwater but only at very shallow depths.

Thanks to our inability to conquer the bends, diving below 70m still remains astonishingly dangerous to anyone but a handful of experts. Ultra-deep diving is so lethal that more people have walked on the moon than descended below 240m using scuba gear.

Now an inventor in the United States believes he has solved the riddle of how to get humans down to serious depths – by getting us to breathe liquid like fish.

Arnold Lande, a retired American heart and lung surgeon, has patented a scuba suit that would allow a human to breathe “liquid air”, a special solution that has been highly enriched with oxygen molecules.

The idea immediately conjures up the terrifying spectre of drowning but our lungs are more than capable of taking oxygen from a solution.

“The first trick you would have to learn is overcoming the gag reflex,” explains Lande, a 79-year-old inventor from St Louis, Missouri. “But once that oxygenated liquid is inside your lungs it would feel just like breathing air.”

Lande envisages a scuba suit that would allow divers to inhale highly-oxygenated perfluorocarbons (PFCs) – a type of liquid that can dissolve enormous quantities of gas. The liquid would be contained in an enclosed helmet that would replace all the air in the lungs, nose and ear cavities.

The CO2 that would normally exit our body when we breathe out would be “scrubbed” from our blood by attaching a mechanical gill to the femoral vein in the leg.

By using oxygen suspended in liquid, divers would no longer have to worry about decompression sickness - the often fatal condition known as “the bends” which occurs when nitrogen dissolved in the blood under the immense pressures of deep water bubbles out as we rise. It could potentially allow them to descend to far greater depths than is currently possible.

Liquid ventilation might sound like science fiction – it played a major role in James Cameron’s 1989 sci-fi film The Abyss – but it is already used by a handful of cutting-edge American hospitals for highly premature babies.

Children born before 28 weeks have huge difficulties breathing, often because their lungs are not developed enough to comfortably adjust from the liquid environment of the womb to inhaling gaseous air. Immature alveoli, the final branchings inside the lung that feed oxygen into the blood, lack vital surfactants which stop the tiny cavities sticking together when we breathe out.

In response doctors have begun experimenting with highly-oxygenated PFCs with remarkable success.

Professor Thomas Shaffer, a paediatrics specialist from Delaware, has experimented with liquid breathing since the late 1970s. He spent much of his early career testing various animals in oxygenated PFCs.

Place a mouse in oxygenated liquid and instinct immediately kicks in as the animal flounders wildly. Everything the mouse has ever learned screams at it to avoid inhaling a solution it thinks will kill it.

Yet when we drown there comes a moment when the instinct not to breathe liquid is overridden by a stronger instinct to take in one last breath. It is a desperate final attempt to get oxygen into the blood. If the liquid we are in contains oxygen molecules that happily cross from the solution into our blood stream, life will return. After all, it is not water that kills us when we drown. It’s our inability to take oxygen from the water that condemns us.

By the mid-1990s, Shaffer and a handful of doctors had begun using liquid ventilation techniques on premature babies and were stunned by the results.

“A lot of the children I see have less than a 5% survival rate,” he explains. “But when we get them on to liquid breathing we see close to 60% going on to lead fully healthy lives.”

The technique remains rare, however, because of a chronic lack of investment.

“Liquid ventilation is not used widely because there is very little funding from the drug companies,” he says. “Unfortunately premature babies don’t have a voice. They don’t bring in money, so no-one really wants to invest. But it does work. Physiologically, liquid ventilation is very do-able.”

The recent oil spill in the Gulf may change that lack of interest. Although drug companies are reluctant to fully explore liquid breathing, the Deep Water Horizon disaster has reignited the debate over how to get divers safely down to extreme depths.

Currently the only way divers can work for long spells in the deep is either from the safety of robotic vessels and submarines; or by using saturation diving, an incredibly complicated technique where divers have to be brought up to the surface in a pressurised container over a matter of weeks.

With saturation diving, the deepest anyone has gone is 701m. Using scuba equipment the record is 318m, set by the South African diver Nuno Gomes in June 2005. It took him 14 minutes to descend and 12 hours to come back up to the surface.

The reason for these slow ascents is our reliance on compressed gasses to breathe in water. Under the incredible pressure exerted by billions of tonnes of ocean, gasses like nitrogen and helium dissolve into our bloodstream, much like CO2 is dissolved in a soda bottle.

Ascending towards the surface is like opening that soda bottle - the gas comes out of solution and into our bodies. If we don’t give our bodies enough time to expel those gasses by ascending slowly, we die.

“The beauty of doing it all from a liquid is that you don’t have to use these highly compressed gasses in the lungs that are going to dissolve into the blood,” says Dr Lande, who recently presented a paper on his patent to the first International Conference on Applied Bionics and Biomechanics in Venice. “You have a liquid that you can infuse just as much oxygen as you need.”

Shaffer has previously experimented with animals and PFCs at depth and found the technique to work. “I have personally put mammals down to a simulated depth of 1000 feet and then decompressed them in half a second and they have no decompression sickness,” he says.

The US Navy Seals also reportedly experimented with liquid ventilation in the early 1980s according to Shaffer who says he met a former Seal turned doctor that was on the team.

“This paediatrician never really revealed why they were doing it,” he explains. “Other than going very deep I don’t know what the point was. But they tried it. The Navy pushed them to the point where they did it several times a week.”

Being so much more viscous than air, liquid is difficult to breathe. Some of the Seals reportedly developed stress fractures on the ribs cause by the sheer force of trying to get a liquid in and out of the lungs.

But Lande envisages using a cuirass, a ventilation device named after a piece of medieval armour, which compresses the diaphragm and makes it easier to breathe liquid.

Now all he needs now are developers and a fresh set of human guinea pigs willing to test his ideas.

“I’m sure someone out there would be willing,” he says. “We’ve climbed the highest mountains, sent people into space. It’s time to find ways of exploring the deep oceans.

All Day, All Night

I think I've posted Rubberloki's video before, I just like to watch these two blokes get dressed up!

Rubbout 22 Review

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Rubberstud(s) of the Week #259

Looks Like Fun

Looks like the last few West Coast Rubber weekends I've been at! ;)

Black Legs, Part 4

Here is the fourth installment of the thrilling visual feast that is muscular men's legs covered in skintight latex. Yum. Enjoy!